Agricultural Practices and Terms

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No Tillage

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A farming practice that leaves all of the soil undisturbed and the entire residue of the previous year's harvest left untouched on the fields.

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Overfishing

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Capturing fish faster than they can reproduce.

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Paddy

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The Malay word for wet rice, increasingly used to describe a flooded field.

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Pastoral Nomadism

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A form of subsistence agriculture based on herding domesticated animals.

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Plantation

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A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.

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Prime Agricultural Land

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The most productive farmland.

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Ranching

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A form of commercial agriculture in which livestock graze over an entire area.

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Ridge Tillage

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A system of planting crops on ridge tops in order to reduce farm production costs and promote greater soil conservation.

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Sawah

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A flooded field for growing rice.

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Shifting Cultivation

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A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.